Arms Trafficking – Frank Smyth

Arming Genocide in Rwanda

September 3, 1994/in Foreign Affairs/by Stephen D. Goose & Frank Smyth

Rwanda is only the latest example of what can happen when small arms and light weapons are sold to a country plagued by ethnic, religious, or nationalist strife. In today’s wars such weapons are responsible for most of the killings of civilians and combatants. They are used…

French Guns, Rwandan Blood

April 14, 1994/in The New York Times/by Frank Smyth

The horrendous vioIence that has seized the tiny African republic of Rwanda is not as random as it looks. For the members of the Akazu, the ruling clan around the late President Juvenal Habyarimana, the only way to retain a 21-year monopoly on power was to kill their enemies as fast as they could. And until yesterday, when…

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